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RBMS Preconference Las Vegas JAMES CUMMINS bookseller RBMS Preconference Las Vegas JAMES CUMMINS bookseller 55th Annual RBMS Preconference Las Vegas To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 e-mail: [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 23 inside front cover: item 45 inside rear cover: item 49 rear cover: item 7 catalogue photography by nicole neenan terMs of payMent: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. the accounts of thomas biddle, u.s. paymaster, st. louis (BIDDLE, Thomas) Treasury Department of the U.S. Forty-six manuscript auditors’ reports relating to the accounts of Major Thomas Biddle, Paymaster, U.S. Army, St. Louis, Missouri. Ranging from 1 to 4 pp. Folio and quarto, [Washington, D.C.]: 1821- 1831. Some occasional smudges or stains, few documents torn along folds, generally in very good condition. In custom linen clamshell box. Major Thomas Biddle (1790 - 1830), eighth child of Captain Charles Biddle and Hannah Shepard, younger brother of Nicholas Biddle of the famous Pennsylvania family, distinguished himself as a soldier in the War of 1812 and on 15 August 1814 was brevet- ted major. In 1820 he was made Paymaster in St. Louis, and served in that ofce for 10 years until he was killed in a duel with Congressman Spencer Pettis. “The duel … occurred on August 27, 1830 … Spencer Pettis, while electioneering during the senatorial canvass of 1830, attacked the president of the United States Bank, Nicholas Biddle, in a campaign speech. His remarks were immediately taken up by Major Thomas Biddle, paymaster in the U.S. Amy and brother to Nicholas, who went to the hotel of the Congressman and cow-hided Pettis as he lay sick in bed. Subsequently, Pettis, having been re-elected to Congress by a large majority, issued a challenge which the Major promptly accepted. Major Biddle, having the choice of distance by being the challenged person, fxed it at fve paces be- cause of his short-sightedness. At dawn, the men met on Bloody Island, their pistols almost touching — so near they stood — and both were struck at the frst exchange. Spencer Pettis died the following day and Major Biddle three days later” (East St. Louis Ac- tion Research Project website). The archive here relates to the accounts of Major Biddle as U.S. Paymaster in St. Louis, a post he held until his death. The last three documents included here postdate Biddle’s death and are addressed to his widow Anne Biddle. $3,000 the glorious first of june in a kalthoeber binding (BINDING, Kalthoeber) Narrative of the Proceedings of His Majesty’s Fleet, Under the Command of Earl Howe, from the Second of May to the Second of June M.DCC.XCIV. Frontispiece portrait (dated 1798), en- graved title, engraved plate (foxed) and folding map (closed tear). 91, [1], [93*]-*100, [6], 97-118 pp. 4to, London: T. Burton, 1796. First edition, second issue (with errata printed on verso of title). Contempo- rary full red morocco, covers with triple-ruled outer border surrounding inner border of small circles, gilt-stamped fern tool at corners, spine in six compartments with raised bands, a.e.g., by Kalthoeber (his ticket on fyleaf ). Foxing to portrait and engraved title, else fne. Previous owners’ stamps to fep. For binding: Spawn & Kinsella 468 & 469; Ramsden, p. 89. A prospectus of sorts for A.C. De Poggi’s two engraved scenes, after paintings by Robert Cleveley, of the events of June 1st, 1794, with an account of the battle, a subscribers list and appendices listing English and French ofcers present. Likely a subscriber’s copy, in a beautiful, understated binding by Christian Katlhoeber (who bound at least one other copy of this work). $3,500 2 | james cummins bookseller bound by samuel welcher (BINDING, Welcher, Samuel) Moore, James Esq. A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir John Moore. Frontispiece portrait of John Moore, 2 partially colored folding maps (“Plan of the Action Near Coruña” & “Spain & Portugal with the March of the British Columns”), extra-illustrated with engraved view of the wooden monument erected by Spain at the site of Moore’s grave and an original ink and wash drawing if the same monumemt, dated August 18, 1809, both with black ink funerary borders. xii, 238, 89, [1] pp. 4to, London: 1809. Fifth edi- tion, corrected. Full black straight-grained morocco, wide gilt and blindstamped borders composed of a Greek key motif and small foral tools on a studded background, surrounding gilt-blocked arms and motto of the Moore family and the Order of the Bath on the front cover, and military tomb on rear cover, spine with double raised bands, lettered in two compartments, the rest gilt, wide turn-ins tooled in gilt, blue moiré endpapers, a.e.g., by Welcher (with his yellow label on verso of front free endpaper, “Bound by Welcher, 12, Villiers Strt. Strand”). Wear to front joint, just starting at lower end. A narrative of General Moore’s campaign against the French during the Napoleonic wars in Spain, in a fne binding by Samuel Welcher. Moore (1761-1809) was killed during the battle at Coruña, his army ex- hausted, badly outnumbered and short of supplies. He was celebrated as a national hero in England and Spain, where a monument was errected on the site of his grave in Coruña (depicted here in an engrav- ing and original drawing). This was likely a family copy — the arms of the Moore family are stamped on the front cover, and an autograph euglogy on the death of John Moore MD (1729-1802), father of Sir John Moore, is afxed to the front fyleaf, followed by 11 pages of autograph transcriptions of encomi- ums on the life of Sir John Moore. $3,500 2014 rbms preconference | 3 BLISS, Tasker H. Archive of retained correspondence, drafts of speeches, book reviews, and military reports, etc. 1-½ linear feet (approx. 750 leaves). 4to and smaller, Ha- vana, etc: [ca. 1900 to 1923 and later]. Generally very good (some staining and chipping to book review typescripts). Tasker H. Bliss (1853-1930), U.S.M.A. class of 1875, inspec- tor of European military schools in the late 1880s, military attaché to Spain at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, “Ordered to Havana, Cuba in December 1898, LTC Bliss served as Collector of Customs for the Island of Cuba and the Port of Havana, reforming a corrupt and inefcient service” (Keilers). He was governor of Moro Province in the Philippines and held other posts in the islands. He served as President of the Army War College on two separate occasions, and was named Army Chief of Staf in 1916, serving until May 1918: “He transformed the Army from a small peacetime establishment to a large war machine, and also ably defended American interests in Al- lied war councils”; at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, he was an American plenipotentiary representative. He was a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His personal papers are at the U.S. Army Military History Institute (1871-1909). 4 | james cummins bookseller The present group of material includes — Retained correspondence as Major, Ofce of the Collector of Customs for Cuba (1902), with related documents (thick bundle). — Letter fle, personal and administrative cor- respondence received, Army War College, 1905 — Military art [Caption title]. Undated type- script, 169 pp., rectos only, with insertions, manuscript corrections, tables. Textbook. — Military Schools of Germany [Caption title]. Undated typescript, 84 pp., plus Appendices [20] pp., rectos only. — Bliss, Tasker H. Discours prononcé à la Dis- tribution des Prix du Lycée Hoche, à Versailles, le 3 Octobre 1918. Versailles: Aubert, 1918. 4 pp., pink wrappers. Not in BNF, not in OCLC. — Drafts or fnished texts of speeches: To the graduating class of the Institute of Tech- nology, Zamboanga, P. I. The Important Elements in Modern Land Con- ficts, published, 1905. Talk on the Russo-Japanese War Luncheon in honor of Marechal Foch, Sherry’s, 1921. Pencil notes, typescript (worn). Speech in Pennsylvania on the Armistice in World War I (four years after the end of hostili- ties) Speech at a dinner of the American-Yugoslav Society (1920s) Speech at Businessman’s Lunch Club, Baltimore (1920s) — Book reviews (typescripts and journal proofs), 1920s: The Armistice, review of: Hermeix, Les Négo- tiations Secrètes The Later Roman Empire, review of: Bury, Cambridge, 1923 Palmer, Statesmanship or War, 1927 The Study of War, 1927. $1,750 2014 rbms preconference | 5 [BLOCQUEL, Simon-François]. Le Nécessaire des Dames, Véritable Trésor de la Toilette, de la Santé, et d’Économie Domestique. 4 engraved frontispieces. viii, 135, [1]; viii, 127, [1]; viii, 128; viii, 128 pp. 4 vols. 32mo, Paris, and Lille: Delarue, and (Blocquel for) Castiaux, [1827]. Original orange paper wrappers, housed in the original marbled board slipcase with lettering piece on spine and Versailles vendor’s label on bottom panel. Slight soil- ing and wear; contents toned with varying foxing and scattered minor stains; slipcase joints partly cracked.
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